Chromeos

It seems everyone is posting their review after a few days of working with the laptop. I decided to take a different perspective with the initial review. When I first started playing with ChromeOS betas a few months ago I came to the realization that this was not for me. Two things were apparent: This machine is to provide a cloud-based Thin Client. I live off servers around the world, not necessarily in the cloud. As a geek, the Walled Garden drives me crazy. “What do you mean I can’t install a SSH server?!?!?” My girlfriend on the other hand could care less about a SSH server. She finds the Mac Mini a little overwhelming at times and really just wants the internet. “Show me where the Safari icon is.” For that reason alone I found ChromeOS to be built for her. Instant On and just a web browser. ...

Since everyone is talking about the fit and finish (which is great other than the battery) I thought I’d talk about the security of the device. Google has already spoken about the separation of user/system with the web browser functions so I will skip that portion. The majority of my work was looking at how the OS responded to simple pentesting scans. I used version 5.21 of Nmap running on MacOS 10.6 Server. The ChromeOS box was patched as of 12/11/10. ...